One of the central elements of any Wedding is music. From the choice of music for the entrance of the bride, through to the first dance and right up until the very last song. ...
Tracy Coleman
Female Singer
(3 Reviews)
Also Performs As: Duo, Function / Party Band, Acoustic Band, Cover Band, Wedding Band
Country: United Kingdom
Based In: Bermondsey, London
Performs: Worldwide
From: £300
Country: United Kingdom
Based In: Bermondsey, London
Performs: Worldwide
From: £300
Tracy has a 7 piece band, "Plum Busby", performing unlikely covers & some original material, enjoying an eclectic mix of genres. Jazz, Folk, Blues, Pop, Music Hall, Latin, Country. Also works as a duo upwards to seven. She also has a one woman show "Bless Em All" on WW1
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Description
Seven Piece Band, "Plum Busby", comprising of a lead female vocalist, a backing female vocalist, pianist, bass, drums, male vocalist/guitarist (stand up comedian), chromatic harmonica player or other wind instrumentalist or possibly accordion, diatonic harmonica and string player.
Skipping from genre to genre with unusual covers and occasional originals.
www.plumbusby.co.uk
Tracy also performs a one woman show "Bless Em All" on the music of WW1 which included music from the time along with original pieces by Paul Sand. This goes out with a piano player and a projector screen for images. Cur
... rently the show also goes out with a techie to operate the projector.
Set-List
The latest set list: In The Summertime, Our Day Will Come, Under The Bed, Monkey Man, Hexamshire Lass, Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Silver Dagger, Angie Baby, Stay Down Here Where You Belong (Irving Berlin), What A Wonderful World, The A Train, My Boy Lollipop, Strawberries, How Long Has This Been Going On?, Come Into My Kitchen, My Heart Belongs To Daddy, I've Got A Brand New Pair Of Roller Skates, Dimming Of The Day, Carey, Es EL Sol, Raspberry Beret, Cielito Lindo.
The Songs from my one woman show "Bless Em All" include: Bless Em All, Just A Song A Twilight, If It Wasn't For The 'O
... uses In-between, Pretty Baby, Music Hall Medley (Down At The Old Bull and Bush, Daisy, Daisy, Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?, Let's All Go Down The Strand, The Man That Broke The Bank at Monte Carlo, My Old Man Said Follow The Van, When Father Papered The Parlour, Knock Em In The Old Kent Road, Any Old Iron, If You were The Only Girl In The World, Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Te-Yay, I'm 'Enery The Eighth, ), Your King and Country Need You, It's A Long Way To Tipperary, Oh It's A Lovely War, Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts For Soldiers, Stay Down Here Where You Belong, Dulce Et Decorum Est (original score ), I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier, Keep Right On To The End Of The Road, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
Biography
Though principally a singer Tracy graduated from Middlesex University with a BA in Performing Arts majoring in Dance and began her career in cabaret, sharing the bill with Tommy Cooper amongst others.
Her performance credits span playing Principal Girl to Lynda Baron’s Principal Boy in panto to singing with a twelve piece salsa band, (Cayenne). She has supported Nina Simone at Ronnie Scott’s and sung with Dean Friedman and Ian Shaw at such venues as The 606, The Vortex and The Pizza Express Dean Street. She promotes and is lead singer in the seven piece band Plum Busby playing regularl
... y at The Hideaway (Streatham), The Kings Head Downstairs and many other venues in and around London and the South East.
From 1994-2004 Tracy ran a successful art gallery on the South Bank in Shad Thames and is currently a celebrated teacher of Pilates at her own studio in Tower Bridge.
Reviews (3 Reviews)
Tracy Coleman - Duo - Bermondsey, London
Event Location: London
Event Type: Wedding Party
29th September 2022
Super professional. Tracy learned a whole set in days and delivered an amazing performance. All genres, great range and charismatic stage presence.
John Henry
Tracy Coleman - Female Singer - Bermondsey, London
Event Location: Gallery Different, Percy Street, Fitzrovia, W1
Event Type: Independent Gig
10th October 2015
If you ever see this band advertised, do your best to get to hear (and see) it. It's a duo comprising Tracy Coleman, voice, and Stuart Hall, various guitars. Tracy sang with us during the summer and was sensational and Stuart has played with us many times on double bass always to huge appreciation for his musicianship and eccentricity. And Plum Busby, which can expand and contract like the Elastic Band, sing and play from an eclectic songbook of many styles, with an accent on good tunes, wit and virtuosity.
If you don't like them, I'll refund your entrance fee and have you sectioned.
Tracy Coleman - Female Singer - Bermondsey, London
Event Location: The Horse, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1
Event Type: Pub gig
27th May 2011
If you want something completely different, musically speaking, you probably need an evening with the unique Plum Busby, Theirs is an original mixture of humour and sauce in the direction of Weimar cabaret or gutsy Weil: Blitz music-hall, Harlem jazz, lonesome Bluegrass, Las Vegas glitz, and then something else on top. Ah yes, the invigorating presence of the incomparable force that is lead singer Tracy Coleman.
Funny, friendly and luscious, Tracy Coleman is the singer, dancer and incidental comedienne who provides the honeyed va-va-voom that sticks the show together. Her backing singer, adept harmoniser and perfect foil is the gamine Mandy Carlton. Versatile and creative Stuart Hall can't get a word in, so he just makes more music on an impressive range of instruments. Founding father of the group and self-appointed master of ceremonies is the multi-talented guitar and vocals man Huw Thomas, a dab hand at playing two recorders simultaneously, though his preliminaries try to persuade ...us there is a third one, fundamentally hidden. Winston Clifford, the new drummer, almost steals the show, not least when he steps away from his kit to take the mic and dumbfound the audience with his incredible jazz vocals.
The success of the mix has something to do with the group's own convivial chemistry, a shared rough humour where most of the jokes are against themselves, and of course there is Tracy Coleman's wit, powerful voice and buzzing personality.
If you are after a good time, a bit of a hoot as well as a lot of great music, do not miss Plum Busby's next gig.
Previous Clients
The Hideaway, Streatham,
The Pheasantry, Pizza Express
Middlesex University
The Nightingale
Suitable for
Bar / Bat Mitzvah Birthday Party (Adult) Casinos Christening Christmas Party Cocktail Party / Drinks Reception Corporate Event Dinner Party Jewish Wedding Private Party Product Launch / Promotion Trade Show / Exhibitions
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